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Old 10-02-2012, 09:28 PM
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Charlotte Area Cars and Coffee - Uptown Charlotte


Mattie's Diner / NC Music Factory Uptown Village-Main Lot
1000 NC Music Factory Blvd, Charlotte NC 28206

Saturday Oct 6th, 2012

7:30am until!
1st Saturday of every month!(weather permitting- rain date the 2nd Sat)

Charlotte Area Cars and Coffee will resume under it's normal scheduled time on the first Saturday of Oct which is the 6th! The fall is a wonderful time to get your cars out for a bit of exercise. The cool weather is great for your engines as well as for standing around swapping stories and looking at cool rides. Come out and enjoy the beautiful fall weather, raking leaves can wait until the afternoon!

Mattie's Diner was trilled to have us and welcome us back. They would ask that the parking spaces adjacent to the Diner in front and beside be reserved for some of Mattie's regular customers. Many drove up thinking that it was a private event and took off. Also please bare with the bathroom situation, the diner is small but will try to accommodate us the best that they can. If we need to there will be alternatives across the street at the Music Factory.

Many asked me if it was possible to reserve spaces for like makes and models and I would leave that up to the 'early bird get the worms'. You can organize as you see fit with particular makes and models, but as far as roping off before hand that is a bit hard due to the unknown size of a group or location desired. I would suggest that if you have a group that wants to park together that you designate a meet up spot close to the Music factory and ride in together, with 700+ spaces you should not have an issue. Last month it sort of fell together as such without much planning.


Mattie's Diner is a fantastic old school eatery that is located at the front of the property. Matt has made some slight changes to accommodate the size of our crowd so bare with them as they learn our needs. There will be coffee as expected, carry out baked items and sit down full breakfasts if you desire, the space is cozy so be prepared. The owner of NC Music Factory has graciously offered the use of this property and in order to respect the jester we need to do our part. Below are a few bylaws we have to follow in order to continue to use the facility. If we ware out our welcome here we are pretty much without options! I can not begin to tell you how much of a challenge it has been to relocate and find a new car friendly location!

Here are the very simple rules:

Absolutely no burnouts or horse play in the lot or the roads out front. It is irresponsible and safety is a huge concern for us. We trust your car is fast and you have unbelievable skills, there is no need to show us!

No vendors will be allowed to set up tables, booths or tents. As before you can hand out fliers if you wish but no signage or structures allowed.

The Uptown division of the Mecklenburg police department are well aware of our event and will patrol the area. Speeding and unlawful behavior will not be tolerated.

We need to leave the facilities better than we find them on each visit. NC Music Factory is letting us use this facility free of charge so we need to respect it There are trash cans throughout the property please do please do not litter.

Parking nearest to the Diner is reserved for regular restaurant patrons. We have the other 662 spaces!

That's it for now, very simple. Sometimes you don't know how good you have something until it is gone. I miss getting my monthly fix of beautiful machines and wonderful car crazy individuals. The weather looks great so far for Saturday morning, tell your friends, family, co- workers and neighbors to come out and enjoy. Looking forward to enjoying our wonderful new home for Charlotte cars and Coffee.

See you Saturday

Michael
 
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The weather should be awesome Saturday! See you all there!
 
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I'll be there with the kids. Haven't been since it moved to the Music Factory, but agree the weather should be great.
 
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Made it late, but looked like a good turn out overall. Only saw (2) Jags, one of which was a Red STR. Waited around for a bit to see if I could meet the owner but never showed.
 
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I made it out as well. It was my first time, and while I was a little disappointed by the lack of jags, I did enjoy myself. I saw the red STR and never met the owner either. Figured he/she would pop up sooner or later but they never did. I came a little late too and ended up parking my XFR all by itself near the street side of the lot. Would be nice to get the jags all together instead of scattered. I did see a light blue convertible XK8 as well but that was about it. Actually, I did also see a green x-type but it was off to the side and I'm not sure it was there for viewing purposes. As is always the case at these things, the Lambos and Ferraris got all the attention (and rightfully so). There was a couple really nice Maseratis there as well.

I plan on going back next month. Hopefully we can get a better turnout of Jaguar owners.
 
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